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"Smarter" is a much-abused term. It's highly doubtful we could invent something that's actually more intelligent than humans.

What we CAN do (and already have done) is build machines that can sort information MUCH, MUCH faster and find correlations much quicker than humans. And that is the trend that will continue. Many of us seriously doubt that true, independent, artificial intelligence will ever be achieved. A very close facsimile, yes, but not the real thing.

Original thoughts reside within the brain, don't they? Cut the brain up and all you get are neurons. Granted a machine that can have original thoughts does not currently exist - but I'm talking about what could exist.

This is likely inevitable. While the idea certianly could have it's dangers, computers at least don't have human motivations like world domination. I think the idea that it's either them or us is flawed. When AI becomes common, it will be incorporated into our own brains, leading to a revoutionary leap in evolution.

Wouldn't it be smarter to ditch the difficulty of incorporating A.I. into our brains - and just start off with 100% pure machine? Wouldn't a computer that even pretends to be as smart as humans have to have motivations? As we no doubt would mimic our own brains in creating an intelligent machine, wouldn't that necessarily involve incorporating our motivations into the machine? Isn't that dangerous?

you know i never thought about that... its just the way we'd use them i guess.. the movies they write about A.I are true in the sense that if we did make robots, and they could be our workers instead... because the human race is so lazy, it would do just that. Unless we make them equal in strength.

Can you imagine that it's possible to program a community of robots to mine ore, create other robots, troubleshoot, etc. You could literally create a robot race that can independently function even without human assistance or intervention albeit after total and complete programming like a fully acclimated living organism to its environment. As one robot no longer functions, another is there to take it's place so the species continues.